 What the heck is the way to create a temporary zero clearance on your table saw? Well, I would work hurts Paul crossing here small workshop guy Let's suppose you're doing an application You're putting on a new width of a dado stack and you don't have any inserts that fit that width and You're going to try to make some sort of a fancy cut Where you're holding a piece of wood like this and you're running across the table saw well The last thing you want to do is try to do that where you've got some Oversize gap Because you can you can get down dip down very very dangerous not comfortable at all doing that You know there are ways to turn around and run it this way But that might involve changing the setup and what I'm trying to do here is not change myself. So what if I Needed zero clearance here for this application and I don't want to order something and wait for it and pay for it You know I did order this and I am using it for this application called the quarter quarter quarter drawer system But that's because I do a lot of that so it's worthwhile to me But what if I didn't want to do that and what if I didn't own like a fancy throw plate like this that has Replaceable inserts where I could buy a bunch of inserts and then cut exactly the one I needed for that application That was a hundred and twenty two dollars right there I think this was from Rockler, and I think that was locked down fancy one, but I think that was $49 or $69 I forget anyway But my point is what if I'm in a hurry? I want to do it right now. I'm in the middle of a project I'm ready to go, but I just realized I can't do that cut with with this setup. Well, here's what you can do let's suppose that I wanted to Have a cut where it's a quarter of an inch from the fence quarter of an inch tall and Quarter of an inch wide so I got a quarter inch wide dado stack on there. I would raise my blade Set my fence this tall fence to be a quarter of an inch from there Lower my blade Unlock it first Lower my blade below the surface here. I Love this set of eye gauging setup blocks. I grab them all the time pretty much every day So I got this set at a quarter of an inch now I Don't have the right throw plate and I don't want to wait for it And I want to get busy So with this tall fence on here and it could be anybody's tall fence This one has to be a match fit dovetail groove Tall fence which is nothing more than a rectangular piece of plywood With dovetail slots in the back side of it and then using dovetail slabs I can put that over my regular fence and make it taller if I wanted one this tall I can make one that tall really really easily All right, so I got the tall fence I Haven't totally locked it down on here yet my blades down. I'm going to lift up that tall fence and put a one-quarter inch MDF or particle board on there I didn't change my fence. I all I did was lift this up and slide the particle board under it And now I'm going to tighten down my fence Because I don't want it rising up When I cut through there with that dado stack When you attach tall fences to your fence make sure you attach them down low Otherwise you might be pulling the top over your fence and then you don't have 90 degrees anymore To do these kinds of cuts you definitely want to know that you're at 90 degrees. I Keep my little square right there so I can check it. All right, so I've got it secure I could even secure it more by attaching something over here. All right, so this is down. This is down We're all looking good. We're nice and secure Get the table saw turned on Got it on safety break is checked and now I'm just going to raise my blade And I want I want to raise my blade in increments Not just jam it up because I only want it to be a quarter of an inch tall for this application If I raise it too much, I'll be creating Too much gap again, and that's what I'm trying to defeat So shut that down Work your way up to the quarter of an inch I'm not quite there. So I'm going to do it again a little bit Now If you're going to do videos you got to learn to do proper safety protocol Sorry about that. You guys don't follow my lead follow do as I say not as I do Anyway, get your safety equipment on So there is a solution for an immediate zero clearance For my application without waiting for my You know 49 dollar plus shipping or my 122 dollar Fancy throw plate which might be part of my permanent solution. This is my temporary solution I hope you like these what the heck is tips and things and always remember You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf Small workshop guy signing off Now I'm not going to go very high because I want to sneak up on a quarter of an inch That obviously is not there yet Yeah, I got another blooper I just opened that up upside down so they all fell out of their slots But I love to have bloopers So anyway, uh, this is a quarter inch wide